I have read a number of articles around improving job performance by assigning RAM disk to the scratchdisk resource entry in the config file.
Will this work for AIX verion 5.3 and above?
Assigning RAM disk to scratchdisk resource on AIX 5.3
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The answer is "probably" only because RAM disk access time is so much faster than spinning disk access time, particularly for random access where the spinning disk heads have to move frequently.
The answer is "probably" only because RAM disk access time is so much faster than spinning disk access time, particularly for random access where the spinning disk heads have to move frequently.
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